Support for projectors or lamps particularly for motor-vehicles.



A. VAN DEN PLAS. SUPPORT FOR PROJECTOES OR LAMPS PARTICULARLY FOR MO'ITDH FEE-HOLES. APPLICATION FILED OUT. 3, 1912.

1,100,505, Patented June 16, 1914..

'JLITED. STAllES PATENT OFFICE.-

.AN'I'OINE VAN DEN PLAS, 0F WOLUWE-ST. PIERBE-LEZ-BBUSSELS, BELGIUM.

sorronr FOB, rnomo'rons on LAMPS PARTICfiirARLY ron-noromvmirom.

icence.

To all whom it may concern I Be it known that I, ANTOINE VAN'DEN I}LAS, a subject of the King of Belgium, and a resident of 32 Rue Sat-Michel, Woluwe St. Pierre-lewBrussels, Belgium, have invented new and useful. Improvements in Supports for Projectors or Lamps Particularly for Motor-Vehicles.

This invention relates to an improved ar-' rangeinent for supporting lamps and projectors especially for lamps arranged on either side at'the front of a motor vehicle.

Hitherto the lamps or projectors of mo tor vehicles have been mounted upon supports in the form of a fork, the vertical arms of which fitted into orifices in two ears secured on either side of the lamp. Such sup: ports have manydisadvantages from a practical and also from an esthetic point of view. In the first place they increasethe breadth of the lamps and therefore necessitate their being put in front of the radiator where they interfere very much with the driver operating the starting handle. Besides when the lamps are taken off, the forked supports may ii'qure the drivers arm or head whenhe is working the starting handle. Finallylthis method of supporting the lamp by ears resting on the two arms of a forlrnecess'itates' the arms being set at precisely the proper distance apart, a distance which varies according to the dimensions of each lamp; and also the height of the supporting shoulders on the arms must be precisely correct as well as the position of the supporting surfaces on the cars. This special adjustment is very expensive for such forked supports and such supports do not permit of different sized lamps heinginterchanged. Further, the ears by which the lamp is supported form projections which make the cleaning of the lamp difiicult. If the lamp is supported, in accordance with the present invention, upon a central or axial stem which is not forked, all or most of these disadvantages are avoided, the space taken up by the lamp considerebl rcducedby the omission of the ears and of the arms of the fork so that the lamp can be placed between the bonnet and the mudguard without extending in front of the radiator and therefore withoutinterfering with the starting of the engine. Further, lamps of diil erent sizes supported in this manner are interchangeable.

According to the invention, the supporting member of the lamp consists of a solid or Specification of Letters ream; Application-filed October 3, 1812. Serial 11o; 72 3 784;

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tubular stem, one'eii'd an ex tension which exactlyflfits thebody of the: lamp either within it or'onts'ideand either above, below, mat the back' and wlxic'h is soldered, riveted. or otherwise attached tothe body. The other extremity ofthis stem is a partially threaded, which on. gages in a corresponding 'eye' in a support ing arm'secured upon the chassis.

The accompanying drawings illustrate by tion according to the invention.

various methodspf construe Figure l is'a side elevation showing an electric lamp provided with a support consisting of a straight central stem secured to theoutside of the lamp body by iii-riveted and soldered arc'tlie support itself resting of the chassis. Fig. 2; is'a partial section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Figs.j3 and 4 are xed to onjejof the side members I and 2 respectively" lampis i.n-

side it, the lam'pis shown in Fig: 3 asbeing supplied eitherelectrically or-with acetylene; Figsnfiand 6 are views, corresponding with Figs. 3 and e' resp'ectively "in which the suparc consists of a metal. plate riveted ,against theinner'surface of the body of the lamp,

than that of the resilient plate when free) by means of a nut pressing against the outside of the body of the lamp: there are projections on the face of,the plate fitting into corresponding recesses in the wall of the uamp'body. Fig. 7 shliws' in side elevation, partly in section, a limp, membereof which issec'ured to its rear wall, and Fig. 8 is a artial vertical sectibnon line 8-8 of Fig.

In these various fi.,1I'8S, (1. indicates the central preferably cyli ndrical support ending in. arc-shaped lateral extensions 6 b which form a supporting are forged in' one with the support (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7 )or a separate arc riveted to the support. This are fits against the outer surface of the lamp body (Figs. 1, 2,) or against the inner surface (Figs. 5 and 6). It is fastened'to the body by rivets (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, '7 and 8) but it may be independent of the body and have upon its tons or projections Z fitting into correspond ing recesses m formed in the body 0 of the lamp (Figsi5 and 6,)

In the arrangement shown in Figs. 5 and the curvature, of which is greater the supporting contacting surface but--' the various forms of construction the sup- 'duced portion (5 which may be provided preferably curved and in Figs. 1. to 6 is 6v the are I) 2) consists of a springy metal plate having at its center a hole throughwhich passes a projection of the support a in the form of a rivet u. This plate I) b has a less curvaturethan the interior surface of the lamp against which it is to be pressed so that the screwing of nutr upon the threaded part 8 of the stem (2 causes the plate I) b to be pressed resiliently against the interior'surface of thelamp. Buttons 1 Z provided on the contacting faces of the plate are forced by the action of the nut into recesses m formed in the wall of the lamp body so as to make the are solid with the lamp body. It may be seen that the nut 1' presses against a shoulder q which surrounds the opening through Which the stem a projects into the body 0 of the lamp. In

port a, terminates at its other-end in a rewith a spur o and may be partially threaded at This threaded portion enters an eye 7' formed at the end of an arm 9 Which is fin-med 1n onewith a foot l2, bolted to the side member z ofthe chassis. This foot may have an eye j to receive the end of an arm in forming the front support of the front mudguard.

The eye j has been indicated in the foot it 7 in the F1gs. 1 to 6 to show that the support a of the lamp may be placed opposite the support}: of the mudguard, that is'to say much farther back t h. hlas been possible hitherto In pratitice t new arr ngemen t for supporting the lamp permits of the lalifl);

being readily fitted into the space between .the mudguard and the radiator of a machine shaped laterally extending flaps integrally made with said standard at the top thereof, adapted to be resiliently ressed against. the face of the lamp body, and a supporting socket secured to the chassis of a vehicle adapted to receive the lower screw-threaded end of said standard, substantially as described.

2. A lamp bracket of the character described comprising a central standard provided with a threaded portion, a curved resilient plate riveted at its center to said standard, and having a curvature of a greater diameter than the curvature of the inner surface of the, lamp body, a collar on the lamp body 'anda nut upon said threaded portion exerting, a pressure upon said collar for forcing said plate against said inner face of the lamp body, and mea'ns for sccuring said "plate to said lamp body.

Dated this 16th day of September 1912. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

ANTOINE VAN DEN PLAS. \Vitncsses CnAs. ROY NAszurrr-i, GASTON Maw: 

